Google’s trend explorer reveals the weekly number of worldwide searches for the keyword "bitcoin" has reached levels not seen since the first week in April.
While the exact number of searches accrued so far this week is not clear, data from Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) reveals 'bitcoin' searches in the past three days alone made up 17 percent of its all-time-high weekly search volume set from Dec. 17-23, 2017.
At that time, the cryptocurrency was trading around its record high near $20,000, while at the time of writing, it is valued at $4,167 according to CoinDesk's Bitcoin Price Index (BPI).